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[FrankB]

Hey,

I' ve tried to smoke test TG2 and my new system... and have been surprised of the results. On a ~400km^2 terrain (you see ~80% of it), I've dropped two populations of high qualitiy trees, with a total of 8 million instances. In 0.7 quality, the image below rendered in just 15 minutes (!).
The RAM required just crossed the 2GB line, I thought it would require more than that.
So in the end, it wasn't a smoke test at all.
Don't look at the image with your artists eye, there's nothing to see here, just a plain heightfield with the two populations. I just thought you might be curious.

Frank

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[Tangled-Universe]

That's ridiculous fast Frank!
Maybe you could try a bit more displaced terrain en higher quality populations and rendersettings?
Sure will have to make your new machine a bit warmer

[rcallicotte]

Thanks Frank.  Reminds me a little bit of Scotland.  Are you headed that way or are you priming for your LOTR entry?

[Mohawk20]

Add water, that'll smoke 'm...

[FrankB]

Thanks Frank.  Reminds me a little bit of Scotland.  Are you headed that way or are you priming for your LOTR entry?

neither of these. That's just for testing, I will not develop it further.

Regards,
Frank

[FrankB]

Add water, that'll smoke 'm...

probably :-) ... but it's more likely that the scene would simply render longer but not look better :-D